Toward the end of her presentation, she shows a visual with six circles, which represent, I gather, the components now forming for her brave new world of cinema as art. The circles are labeled: Development, Finance, Publishing, Marketing, Education, and Executive Management. I rest my case.
― etrian odysseus (cozen), Sunday, 18 April 2010 14:58 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.clicknothing.com/click_nothing/2010/05/451-weeks.html
kind of interesting but immediately upon finishing it, i wanted to yell at this guy, wait - so why the fuck are you quitting? why write this thing if you're just going to talk around the reasons and "bad habits" that you have developed? what a bizarre semi-inspirational yet passive-aggressive resignation notice, the most eye-rolling bit is the "i have to walk on coals" shit - he's quitting because he job is just too damn good for him to live with
― Nhex, Tuesday, 4 May 2010 20:51 (fourteen years ago) link
i read that and then realized i had no idea what he had actually said
― sir gaga (s1ocki), Tuesday, 4 May 2010 21:02 (fourteen years ago) link
So I liked a bunch of Extra Lives -- which is the thing worth reading on videogames, not my review of it that I'm linking to right here and hoping the total tackiness of linking to myself will be overlooked since I mentioned it myself: http://popculturecurator.tumblr.com/post/709868739/book-review-extra-lives
― Mordy, Friday, 18 June 2010 01:54 (fourteen years ago) link
is that by the guy who wrote about doing coke while playing GTA? my eyes are already rolling
― Nhex, Friday, 18 June 2010 02:07 (fourteen years ago) link
It was so good! I don't know how/where he wrote about it elsewhere, but that sequence in the book is my favorite.
― Mordy, Friday, 18 June 2010 02:10 (fourteen years ago) link
If anyone wants to pay me to write a book about doing drugs & playing videogames, feel free to contact me.
― breaking that little dog's heart chakra (Abbott), Friday, 18 June 2010 02:11 (fourteen years ago) link
If you write that book, I will buy a copy. But no advance, I'm afraid.
― Mordy, Friday, 18 June 2010 02:12 (fourteen years ago) link
Also, I will contribute a chapter about my experiences parachuting through snow-capped mountains in Lost Cause 2 while completely stoned with the volume turned down and some dubstep turned up.
― Mordy, Friday, 18 June 2010 02:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh my god I checked whether the library had that Bissell book today but finding out that he's the coke Observer gta guy I hate you for recommending it. Is it really a recommendation? I don't actually hate you. But god.
― bamcquern, Friday, 18 June 2010 06:43 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm surprised you guys don't like the cocaine piece. Is it just that you feel an article about drugs + video games is inherently self-congratulatory and fratty? Because I find it really open and honest and real. Or did you just think it was poor writing?
― Mordy, Friday, 18 June 2010 09:55 (fourteen years ago) link
An article about drugs is inherently self-congratulatory however honest.
I tried Rainbow Islands on acid once, it was shit.
― Higuain in the Membrane (Noodle Vague), Friday, 18 June 2010 09:57 (fourteen years ago) link
There is something really cool about seeing the graph paper drawings for planning out Pac-Man.
http://kotaku.com/5569439/secret-pac+man-drawings
― Nhex, Wednesday, 23 June 2010 05:23 (fourteen years ago) link
I was high as fuck and blindbought a Kindle copy of this based on your recommendations itt before realizing the author was Captain Cokey McCahzinNico
/wrists
― Can the XBox 360 endure a virgin birth? (jamescobo), Wednesday, 23 June 2010 17:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Your narrative about being on drugs and reading books about video games is A++ imo.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 23 June 2010 17:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Kotaku makes my netbook throw up. It took 5 minutes to load that page.
― bamcquern, Wednesday, 23 June 2010 18:06 (fourteen years ago) link
your netbook is clearly looking out for your best interests
― Can the XBox 360 endure a virgin birth? (jamescobo), Wednesday, 23 June 2010 18:11 (fourteen years ago) link
UPDATE ON THAT SHITTY BISSEL BOOK: so far I am guardedly enjoying it?!?? it is as self-serving and self-congratulatory as a post-success Nick Hornby book but since the whole collection is basically attempting to be an aesthetic study of vidya games that is to be expected, and fortunately (and incredibly) he occasionally makes semi-trenchant points. nothing as risible as the GTA essay, although it's looming at the end of the book.
that being said, that essay about Resident Evil can swing from my ballhair. STOP USING THE SECOND FUCKING PERSON, SOME OF US DIDN'T GET TO PLAY VIDEO GAMES WHEN WE WERE BABBYS
― Can the XBox 360 endure a virgin birth? (jamescobo), Thursday, 24 June 2010 18:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Haha!
― Mordy, Thursday, 24 June 2010 18:19 (fourteen years ago) link
also did not realize that Bissell was the one behind that CliffyB NYT profile from a few years back; blech on that one too
― Can the XBox 360 endure a virgin birth? (jamescobo), Saturday, 26 June 2010 19:39 (fourteen years ago) link
oh wow, that guy is pretty terrible
― obvious and old and bannable (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 27 June 2010 02:53 (fourteen years ago) link
TOM SHITTYBISSELL BOOK UPDATE
the Mass Effect essay is maybe the worst thing I've ever read of his, GTA and CliffyB essays included. the correlation between the quality of his writing and his personal affinity for whatever he's writing about is downright Hornbyesque.
― Can the XBox 360 endure a virgin birth? (jamescobo), Tuesday, 29 June 2010 21:44 (fourteen years ago) link
downright Hornbyesque.
this is worse than being described as Mcsweeney-ish in my book
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 29 June 2010 21:58 (fourteen years ago) link
The best thing I have read about videogames for ages? http://www.boingboing.net/features/nomenludi.html
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Tuesday, 29 June 2010 22:07 (fourteen years ago) link
whoa
― emotional radiohead whatever (Jordan), Tuesday, 29 June 2010 22:20 (fourteen years ago) link
that's for real?
― obvious and old and bannable (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 30 June 2010 05:37 (fourteen years ago) link
impressed.
― Nhex, Wednesday, 30 June 2010 06:10 (fourteen years ago) link
great story...
― anyway, i dig Herpes (stevie), Wednesday, 30 June 2010 07:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Read further down in the comments. It's fiction.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Wednesday, 30 June 2010 07:22 (fourteen years ago) link
ah, that's a bit more believable then.
― obvious and old and bannable (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 30 June 2010 15:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Do you guys read RetroGamer magazine? The magazine is filled with articles very much like that story with maybe a little less fictionalization (though there is always a haze of fiction when dealing with nostalgia) and less drama (though not always -- last issue had an interview with John Romero)
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 30 June 2010 16:37 (fourteen years ago) link
keep meaning to get a sub
― obvious and old and bannable (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 30 June 2010 17:13 (fourteen years ago) link
uh holy shit like 150 bucks for 13 issues, no.
― obvious and old and bannable (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 30 June 2010 17:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Ha! Nostalgia is expensive in more ways than one, and one of those ways is money.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 30 June 2010 17:26 (fourteen years ago) link
(Sometimes I think that if I could get funding to do any phd in the world and did not need a job afterward I would want to do nerd culture 1986-1988? Nostalgia is the wrong word really 'cos I was at, y'know, nursery at the time but it's definitely some kind of yearning?)
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Wednesday, 30 June 2010 17:32 (fourteen years ago) link
why those years specifically? Post-Robocop to pre-Burton Batman?
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 30 June 2010 18:47 (fourteen years ago) link
finally done with this shitass book, and here is what I've learned:
- many people in the game industry got their start by making mods with the Unreal Engine- stories in games are inferior to those in movies- "ludonarrative"- Jonathan Blow is apparently the voice of reason within the game industry (LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL)- Resident Evil made it okay for games to have stupid stories- Tom Bissell should be dropped from a great height- Kindle offers a "read the first chapter for free" feature which I really need to start taking advantage of before blindly buying shit while stoned
― TOM SHITTYBISSELL (jamescobo), Friday, 2 July 2010 18:47 (fourteen years ago) link
in summary, it was exponentially more fun to hate on this book than to actually read it
― TOM SHITTYBISSELL (jamescobo), Friday, 2 July 2010 18:48 (fourteen years ago) link
how does this guy's war journalism compare?
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 2 July 2010 20:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Haha, thank you for blogging.
― bamcquern, Friday, 2 July 2010 21:58 (fourteen years ago) link
So I have this series of six very small books, published 1988, in a series called 'Oss The Quick'. They're basically CYOA books for a very young audience (I'd say mid-ability eight-year-olds or bright 7s) that are, well, they're AD&D. Monsters are called things like 'The Nasty'. It's not actually possible to lose in most of them. But they star a rogue, a fighter and a magic user, and the setting is pure generic Gygax, through a kid-friendly sensibility. You even get a character sheet!
Anyway why I like them so much is that they were published by Oxford University Press! I'm not really sure why! I get the idea that there was a moment somewhere in these years when it seemed like geeks would surely inherit the earth but no-one quite knew in what aspect, whether computers would turn out to be the important thing or whether it would be painting lead figures, when the world seemed to be seeing and laying approving eyes for the first time on this new and multiplying sect.
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Saturday, 3 July 2010 01:48 (fourteen years ago) link
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=dcbooks;cc=dcbooks;rgn=div2;view=toc;idno=5682627.0001.001;node=5682627.0001.001:2.1^full version of This Gaming Life available online
― obvious and old and bannable (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 8 July 2010 18:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Stack Exchange, but for gamers...http://gaming.stackexchange.com
― ninjas and lasers and gold and (snoball), Thursday, 15 July 2010 07:33 (fourteen years ago) link
pc zone comes to an endhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10641398
I didn't know that it had hailed from Zero in 1992 though.
― Guru Meditation (Ste), Thursday, 15 July 2010 09:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Ah, lost count of the number of floppies in my box (/mrcursor) that were reformatted PC Zone cover disks.
― ninjas and lasers and gold and (snoball), Thursday, 15 July 2010 09:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Er, was it three?
Three issues in, the decision was taken to give away a free CD Rom every issue, full of game demos.
Main PC Zone memory was buying the issue with the Quake demo/shareware/whatever it was while on holiday. Holiday was then mostly ruined cos I just wanted to get home again to play it.
― JimD, Thursday, 15 July 2010 10:07 (fourteen years ago) link
hahaha
― Guru Meditation (Ste), Thursday, 15 July 2010 10:13 (fourteen years ago) link
heh, sounds like good times
― Nhex, Thursday, 15 July 2010 13:43 (fourteen years ago) link
http://thoughtcatalog.com/2010/video-games-atari-macintosh-pc-computer/
leigh alexander is writing about every video game console she has ever owned
and for some reason doing so in the style of tao lin?
― thomp, Tuesday, 31 August 2010 16:43 (fourteen years ago) link
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these scare quotes are killing me, but she hasn't made a diversion yet about what her dude-bro is texting her, so it reads pretty purged of Tao Lin
― peacocks, Tuesday, 31 August 2010 18:09 (fourteen years ago) link